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>> we did not elect a dictator. we elected a president. >> reporter: a good many fingers are pointing at this guy, founding father and massachusetts governor elbridge gerry drew this contorted district to ensure his party's victory in 1812. one political cartoonist likened it to a salamander. from that day on the practice of redrawing maps to find friendly voters has been known as gerrymandering. north carolina's 12th district looks like spilled coffee. pennsylvania's 16th is flexing its muscles. and one commentator compared maryland's third to a broken-winged pterodactyl. and then there is this. they call it the earmuffs. you may think i'm zipping along an eight-lane highway, when in fact i'm traveling a single thread that links the two halves of the illinois fourth congressional district. >> the control of the house of representatives would switch from the democratic party to the republicans. >> reporter: when republicans won the majority of state houses in 2010, it ensured they would be redrawing the maps in thos
>> we did not elect a dictator. we elected a president. >> reporter: a good many fingers are pointing at this guy, founding father and massachusetts governor elbridge gerry drew this contorted district to ensure his party's victory in 1812. one political cartoonist likened it to a salamander. from that day on the practice of redrawing maps to find friendly voters has been known as gerrymandering. north carolina's 12th district looks like spilled coffee. pennsylvania's 16th is...
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i was elected to represent over 700,000 people. some folks you hear criticism from. >> reporter: nbc news spoke with people who live in his district and expressed anger with washington. >> they are not doing their job. >> i'm embarrassed. i'm very embarrassed that we have politicians acting the way they are. >> reporter: still, analysts say it is the republican party that faces the largest hurdle ahead of 2016. >> the big question is whether the republican brand recovers and if it does how strong it becomes. >> reporter: of course, up next the 2014 mid-term elections. there is no indication that tea party house members will lose their seats. in fact, case in point, a super pac headed by jim demint recorded its best fund-raising month ever. carl? >> kristen welker at the white house. thank you. >>> now to an issue many americans have been dealing with for two weeks now -- trying to sign up for health insurance under the affordable care act only to find problems with the government website. congress will have hearings on the issue an
i was elected to represent over 700,000 people. some folks you hear criticism from. >> reporter: nbc news spoke with people who live in his district and expressed anger with washington. >> they are not doing their job. >> i'm embarrassed. i'm very embarrassed that we have politicians acting the way they are. >> reporter: still, analysts say it is the republican party that faces the largest hurdle ahead of 2016. >> the big question is whether the republican brand...
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booker becomes just the fourth popularly elected african-american u.s. senator. >>> a new addition may be great for travelers but not for folks who live nearby. chicago o'hare airport has just added a new runway just two miles long. that makes four parallels and one diagonal. they can now handle 144 takeoffs per hour. the new capacity means a new plane taking off or landing every 15 seconds. it will bring noise to a lot of neighborhoods, but it may reduce o'hare's on-time percentage. they now rank last among major airports. >>> the other thing congress agreed to before leaving town last night was the title ambassador caroline kennedy. the daughter of jfk was confirmed by the u.s. senate to serve as the next u.s. ambassador to japan. it's a vital relationship for this country. japan is our fourth largest trading partner. 50,000 americans are still stationed there, many of them, of course, attached to the home of the navy's seventh fleet. >>> when we come back tonight, an american original. a unique federal employee thrilled to be back at her post this eve
booker becomes just the fourth popularly elected african-american u.s. senator. >>> a new addition may be great for travelers but not for folks who live nearby. chicago o'hare airport has just added a new runway just two miles long. that makes four parallels and one diagonal. they can now handle 144 takeoffs per hour. the new capacity means a new plane taking off or landing every 15 seconds. it will bring noise to a lot of neighborhoods, but it may reduce o'hare's on-time percentage....
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that's why we had an election in 2012. that's part of what that was all about. so it was a terrific mistake. we inflicted pain on the american people that was totally unnecessary. and we cannot do this again. we republicans have a hole that we've got to come out of. and obviously we're going to have to do a lot of work. well, he's entitled to his views. he's entitled to his, to what he wants to do. and he's responsible to the voters of the state of texas. but it wasn't senator cruz alone. part of it was a selling the american people by a lot of organizations that somehow if we held out long enough that we would be able to do away with obama care. and that's not how the american government works when you only have a majority in the house of representatives and democrats governing the senate and a democratic president. and so it was a fool's errand. and that's why some of us became so angry. look, i'll do everything i can to fix obama care and to defund it. i campaigned on that. but you can't do it when the situation is as it was. and so you deceived a lot of amer
that's why we had an election in 2012. that's part of what that was all about. so it was a terrific mistake. we inflicted pain on the american people that was totally unnecessary. and we cannot do this again. we republicans have a hole that we've got to come out of. and obviously we're going to have to do a lot of work. well, he's entitled to his views. he's entitled to his, to what he wants to do. and he's responsible to the voters of the state of texas. but it wasn't senator cruz alone. part...
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a dozen gop districts in mostly blue states where incumbents are considered weaker for next year's election. not only congress. in virginia, home to many federal workers and government contractors, the governor's race shows democrat terry mccauliffe extending his lead over ken cuccinelli with just over two weeks left. democrats in congress are wary knowing they are under prosecute sure, too. the president has been cautious not to claim political victory. today a tea party pac vowed to topple the gop senate leader mitch mcconnell, endorsing his primary opponent. >> conservative movement is spoiling for a fight and see mcconnell as a top target. >> reporter: for republicans the shutdown is over but their own crisis is unresolved. kelly o'donnell, nbc news, washington. >>> at a time when democrats and republicans aren't getting along a former speaker of the house, tom foley, has died. he was a democrat and a friend of many republicans, a politician who promised and delivered a return to bipartisanship when he became speaker in 1989. foley was swept out of office in the newt gingrich revolution
a dozen gop districts in mostly blue states where incumbents are considered weaker for next year's election. not only congress. in virginia, home to many federal workers and government contractors, the governor's race shows democrat terry mccauliffe extending his lead over ken cuccinelli with just over two weeks left. democrats in congress are wary knowing they are under prosecute sure, too. the president has been cautious not to claim political victory. today a tea party pac vowed to topple...